each historical period contain a special conception about god, man and the world by which it is distinguished from the others. at the beginning of modernity, western man has accepted a new conception toward these problems. relation between ethics and religion within modernity, depend on such conception. while in the prior periods, especially in the middle age, ethics had been known to be depend...

in the recent years, new medical technologies and their probable misuses have emerged public concerns about medical ethics. medical ethics is a practical discipline that provides a structured approach for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues in clinical medicine. in this study we reviewed some new methods of teaching medical ethics in other countries by searching in internet and...

feminist ethics is a new and important branch of western ethics. this article is an attempt to examine one of the essential issues in this area; i. e. the necessities of feminist ethics. the paper has taken it for granted that: 1. it is necessary to criticize feminist ethics, 2.without considering some points in this criticism, one cannot take a fair position towards or against it. having offer...

principlism, in general and four principles approach in particular is largely discussed in current medical ethics. accord­ing to principlism, the ethical relationship between physician and patient has to be categorized based on some princi­ples, the prin­ciples which are general, action-guiding and could help both the patient and the physician to arrange their ethical behav­ior. four principles...

recent disclosures of failures of care in the national health service (nhs) in england have led to debates about compassion deficits disallowing health professionals to provide high quality responsive care. while the link between high quality care and compassion is often taken for granted, it is less obvious how compassion – often originating in the individual’s emotional response – can become ...

patients and methods subjects of this study include teaching hospitals in mashhad, affiliated with mashhad university of medical sciences and the tool used in gathering the data was a questionnaire, completed based on the information provided by the proceedings of the meetings held by the ethics committees. also, for the purpose of gathering the suggestions, specifically on the improvement of t...

Abstract This address begins with a discussion of ethical reasoning in Paul’s letters. The unsystematic character his discourse and its variety are emphasized. second part is comparison two recent approaches, the ecclesial ethics Stanley Hauerwas Jürgen Habermas. third consideration feminist womanist as approaches that fundamentally challenge terms authority usefulness for white women black wom...